Word: hoffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jimmy Hoffa, boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is plenty tough. But last week was enough to test even Jimmy's mettle. In quick succession, he was hit by two court actions-one accusing him and a buddy of taking over $1,000,000 in payments from a trucking company, the other charging him with beating the daylights out of an enemy...
...said Hoffa had slugged him was Samuel Baron, 59, the 5-ft. 6½-in., 152-lb. field director of the Teamsters' warehouse division. Baron told how he and labor's little Napoleon had been feuding for years. During an argument in the union's Washington headquarters, Baron said, Hoffa suddenly began advancing on him with fists clenched and jaw muscles twitching. "I thought," said Baron, " 'This man is absolutely out of his mind.' Before I know it, he swings and catches me in the left eye and knocks me down...
Warming up at a press conference for a bit of political education work among his Iowa minions in Des Moines. Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa righteously excoriated Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy for "acting like a little hoodlum" and "not representing this country's democracy in a proper manner." The Attorney General's offense: "He travels around the world in his shirtsleeves...
...courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture and suppose I'm not there." Deep but Narrow. A short time ago, all this serious attention toward Sophia Loren would have seemed as preposterous as the suggestion that Jimmy Hoffa might some day win a Nobel Prize. She owes her newfound status almost exclusively to European film makers, a fact that illuminates the general difference between films made by Hollywood and films made by Europeans. The difference is a matter of maturity and honesty. In Europe, for example, realism means graphic...
...Newsmen swarmed, all 250 public seats were filled early, and standees wedged themselves along the sidelines. All had come to see what promised to be the most exciting congressional hearing since Robert Kennedy, as counsel of a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering, matched acid insults with Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa...